Re: totem great instability

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp redhat com>]

Totem/gstreamer is the way to go especially if you want to be able to
install proprietary codecs from a licensed source in the future.  Please
file a bug if you find problems.  Upstream is the best place where it
will get fixed the fastest. 

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 22:21 +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> Not considering the fact that you are able to play near nothing with
> it, this piece of software
> is very unstable.
> Previous versions quite often crashed at launch or after selecting
> some menu items
> The latest totem-1.3.0-3, while navigating through file system, often
> freezes and
> doing strace of pid gives continuously something like what below.
> Does it make sens to include totem in core, when every one that wants to see
> videos in fedora, removes totem and installs then totem-xine (plus
> decoding/navigating
> libraries) or other similar applications like mplayer or vlc?
> Gianluca
> 
> 
> [gcecchi fedora fedora]$ strace -p 1665
> Process 1665 attached - interrupt to quit
> poll([{fd=28, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 500) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf4720, 2)                 = 0
> shmctl(1933313, IPC_64|IPC_STAT, 0xbfcf46cc) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf472c, 1)                 = 0
> poll([{fd=28, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 500) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf4720, 2)                 = 0
> shmctl(1933313, IPC_64|IPC_STAT, 0xbfcf46cc) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf472c, 1)                 = 0
> poll([{fd=28, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 500) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf4720, 2)                 = 0
> shmctl(1933313, IPC_64|IPC_STAT, 0xbfcf46cc) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf472c, 1)                 = 0
> poll([{fd=28, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 500) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf4720, 2)                 = 0
> shmctl(1933313, IPC_64|IPC_STAT, 0xbfcf46cc) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf472c, 1)                 = 0
> poll([{fd=28, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 500) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf4720, 2)                 = 0
> shmctl(1933313, IPC_64|IPC_STAT, 0xbfcf46cc) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf472c, 1)                 = 0
> poll([{fd=28, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 500) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf4720, 2)                 = 0
> shmctl(1933313, IPC_64|IPC_STAT, 0xbfcf46cc) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf472c, 1)                 = 0
> poll([{fd=28, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 500) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf4720, 2)                 = 0
> shmctl(1933313, IPC_64|IPC_STAT, 0xbfcf46cc) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf472c, 1)                 = 0
> poll([{fd=28, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 500) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf4720, 2)                 = 0
> shmctl(1933313, IPC_64|IPC_STAT, 0xbfcf46cc) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf472c, 1)                 = 0
> poll([{fd=28, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 500) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf4720, 2)                 = 0
> shmctl(1933313, IPC_64|IPC_STAT, 0xbfcf46cc) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf472c, 1)                 = 0
> poll([{fd=28, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 500) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf4720, 2)                 = 0
> shmctl(1933313, IPC_64|IPC_STAT, 0xbfcf46cc) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf472c, 1)                 = 0
> poll([{fd=28, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 500) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf4720, 2)                 = 0
> shmctl(1933313, IPC_64|IPC_STAT, 0xbfcf46cc) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf472c, 1)                 = 0
> poll([{fd=28, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 500) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf4720, 2)                 = 0
> shmctl(1933313, IPC_64|IPC_STAT, 0xbfcf46cc) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf472c, 1)                 = 0
> poll([{fd=28, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 500) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf4720, 2)                 = 0
> shmctl(1933313, IPC_64|IPC_STAT, 0xbfcf46cc) = 0
> semop(0, 0xbfcf472c, 1)                 = 0
> poll( <unfinished ...>
> 
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